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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The shields don't just protect against kinetic weapons, they also tend to cause energy weapons to blow up in a thermonuclear explosions iirc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like a drone dropping an energy weapon on a shield users head would do the trick then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

iirc computing is pretty gimped in Dune as well because of previous issues with AI, humanity limited development on that front and focused on developing human capabilities instead, which is where spice came into play…it like super charged your cognition in order to navigating ships through space or something like that. Someone familiar with books please correct that I’m sure it’s not perfect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

That's right. There was a war called the Butlerian Jihad in which humanity wiped out anything close to AI. Since then it has been high-treason-level illegal to "make a machine in the image of the human mind".